Big Crab Orchard Or Witten’s Fort

On the hillside to the south stood Big Crab Orchard Fort, also known as Witten’s Fort. Thomas Witten obtained land here in 1771 and built the fort as a neighborhood place of refuge. It was garrisoned in Dunmore’s War, 1774.

Marker ...

Replica of the Statue of Liberty

With the faith and courage of

their forefathers who made

possible the freedom of these

United States

The Boy Scouts of America

dedicate this copy of the

Statue of Liberty as a pledge

of everlasting fidelity and

loyalty

40th Anniversary Crusade to

strengthen the arm of liberty

Marker is at the ...

Adolph Frederick Rupp

Born in Halstead, Kansas, of German emigrant parents Sept. 2, 1901, he was quite proud that he was a full-blooded German.

Rupp graduated from Halstead High School and then attended the University of Kansas where he played basketball under Coach Phog ...

Potawatomi ‘Trail of Death’ Route

Indiana to Kansas, September 4 - November 4, 1838

The 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe on this site was decisive, leading to the loss of their homelands and the removal of Indians from Indiana.

At Gunpoint, about 850 Potawatomi passed this location on ...

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

A burial ground before 1847, this graveyard became an Army post cemetery in the 1860s. It is the final resting place for most who fell at San Pasqual in 1846, and for the USS Bennington victims of 1905. It became ...

First Michigan Colored Regiment

The First Michigan Colored Regiment was organized at Camp Ward, which originally stood at this location. Formed from August through October 1863, a year of draft riots and protests against the war, this Negro regiment consisted entirely of volunteers. During ...

Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen

As a University of Kansas student in 1905, Phog Allen played basketball for the inventor of the game, Dr. James Naismith. His performance produced three Letters from 1905-1907 and earned him a place on the roster of the K. C. ...

McCormick County Confederate Monument

1861-1865

[East]:

In Honor of the

Confederate Soldiers

from

McCormick County

This monument perpetuates

the memory of those who,

true to the instincts of

their birth, faithful to the

teachings of their fathers,

constant in their love for

the South, offered their

lives and fortunes in the

performance of their duty.

[West]:

Presented by

McCormick County Historical

Society ...

Furybrook Farm

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places for its part in the settlement and history of the Town of Chester, New York

Settled 1731 by Roe family.

Marker is on Kings Highway (County Route 13) 0.3 miles north of Well Sweep ...

First Ebenezer Baptist Church

This congregation began when a handful of slaves gathered for services on the Rhodes Plantation in August 1812. In 1851 Absalom A. Rhodes sold a quarter acre of land here for two dollars to the deacon board of Ebenezer Baptist ...